Half seriously and half in mischief, Hueffer wonders whether witchcraft might come back, then surveys what witches were believed to be and do. Chapters cover the sabbath, familiars and charms, the witch in Greece and Rome, the papal witch-bull and the trials in England and Scotland, notable English witches, and the witch in fiction.
An urbane Edwardian history of witch belief, with a frontispiece by W. Heath Robinson. Download the free EPUB.